Strategies used in teaching short stories at secondary level in Dang district

Abstract

The present study entitled ‘Strategies Used in Teaching Short Stories at Secondary Level in Dang District’ is an attempt to explore strategies used in teaching short stories by the English language teachers. The main objective of this study was to find out the main strategies employed by teachers at secondary level in teaching short stories. Moreover, it has also found out most favored strategies by teachers and main problems that lie in teaching short stories. The researcher used a random purposive sampling procedure to select forty English teachers from twenty from government and twenty from institutional schools of Dang district. The major tools of data collection were class observation checklists and questionnaires. The data obtained was analyzed descriptively and interpreted using simple statistical tools. After analyzing the data collected through class observation checklist and questionnaires, it has been found that most of the English teachers motivated students underlying difficult words, finding out meanings and pronouncing words, asking students to read story(silently and loudly), describing about topic and writer of the story, using pictures and posters related to the story, question answer, providing feedback, group work, group discussion. Likewise the problems faced by teachers while teaching short story were uncontrolled classroom because of unwanted gossip of students, language problem(they couldn’t express the event though they have already read or heard), students didn’t understand English in community based Nepali medium school, students did not focus on grammatical aspect, they focus only listening to the story, sometime students couldn’t understand story because they are extracted from other story and students felt uninterested because it is less communicative. The research consists of five chapters. Chapter one is an introductory chapter. This chapter includes background of the study, statement of the problem, rationale of the study, objectives of the study, research questions/hypothesis, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definition of the key terms. Second chapter deals with review of related literature, implications of the review for the study and theoretical/conceptual framework. Similarly, the third chapter deals with the sources of data, sampling procedure, data collection tools, procedure of data collection, data analysis and interpretation. The fourth chapter deals with analysis of data and interpretation of the result, summary of the findings. The fifth chapter includes conclusions and recommendations in policy related, practice related and further research related level. In the final part of the thesis, references and appendices have been included systematically.